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HOME HELPS.
The Home Helps Service during the year 1948 expanded
considerably in accordance with the Corporation's scheme under
the National Health Service Act, 1948.
(1) Number of Home Helps—January 1st
and December 31st, 1948—
31/12/47. 31/12/48.
(a) Full-time 37 42
(b) Part-time 20 32
(2) Number of applications—
(a) Maternity 843
(b) Sickness 1,134
(3) Number of applications met—
(a) Maternity 801
(b) Sickness 1,129
(4) Average duration of services given—
(a) Maternity 14 days
(b) Sickness 10—21 days
(5) Amount recovered for services £2,136 4s. 4d.
(6) Rate of remuneration of "Helps"—
(a) Maternity £4 14s. 0d. per week
(b) Sickness 2s. per hour
Reference should also be made to page 70 for further data
in regard to this Service.
AMBULANCE SERVICE.
I beg to submit the Seventh Annual Report and Statistics
ol this Service for the year ended 31st December, 1948.
During the year the Service dealt with 25,227 calls, which is
.hi increase of 6,859, or approximately 37 per cent, over the
figures for 1947, and this increase is mainlv accounted for by
the expansion due to the National Health Service Act.
The total mileage covered by ambulances on calls during the
year was 185,611 miles, which is an increase of 39,172 over the
previous year's figures.
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